BWA had a blast at the 2017 Leverage celebration of the Community Design Collaborative’s community design impact and fundraiser for future design grants! In addition to a delightful evening of food, awards, and raffles, the event was a wonderful chance to peruse the Collaborative’s gallery of diverse projects and explore UPenn’s impressive new Pennovation Center. Check out the Collaborative’s photos from the evening here

BWA was honored to have two projects featured in the gallery, and to have the opportunity for our design volunteers to catch up with the community partners who are working hard to turn the project teams’ visions into reality.

Technology is changing higher education learning environments. Salus University, a prominent graduate-level health science university in suburban Philadelphia, understands this. They've embarked on a series of renovations which, as president Dr. Michael H. Mittelman, explains, "will provide our students with an optimum learning experience and environment, as well as ...” Read More...

A much-used recreation center in Philadelphia’s Sharswood neighborhood is getting a facelift. On May 18th over a hundred volunteers will work together to renovate the lobby, art room, auditorium, costume room, and kitchen of the Athletic Recreation Center at 1400 N 26th St. The renovation is a joint project of AEC Cares, the Community Design Collaborative, AIA Philadelphia[…]

BWA architecture + planning has long supported the Community Design Collaborative, contributing pro bono design services to non-profits in greater Philadelphia. So we are particularly proud to announce that our founding principal Richard Winston has been named as Co-Chair of the Collaborative’s Board.

Since 2005, when several individuals supported by neighborhood groups banded together to get the Presser and Nugent Homes on the National Register of Historic places, history and community have strongly influenced development on the 100-200 blocks of Johnson Street in West Mt. Airy. So it is again, with BWA architecture + planning’s designs for a new senior […]

How do you achieve museum-quality environmental conditions and modern energy efficiency in a 1960’s era building? That was the challenge BWA undertook with our recently completed renovation of the Library Company’s Ridgway building.

Once a vibrant commercial and industrial center, the landscape of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood is now marked by large vacant buildings and lots that invite dumping and illegal activity. As part of an initiative by the […]